Mia Wasikowska (pronounced /?v???i??k?fsk?/ vah-shee-kof-sk?; born 14 October 1989)is an Australian actress. After starting her career in Australian television and film, she first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment. She gained worldwide prominence in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton’s $1 billion-grossing Alice in Wonderland and appearing in The Kids Are All Right, for which she received the Hollywood Awards’ Breakthrough Actress Award.

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Studied ballet while growing up.
One of Variety magazine’s Top Ten Actors to watch (2008).
Last name pronounced “vash-i-kov-ska”.
Completed school via the Karabar High School Distance Education Centre, a form of correspondence school based in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, just outside of Canberra, so that she could continue acting while still in High School.
Has an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai.